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Date Posted: 00:48:11 01/29/04 Thu
Author: Shelley
Subject: Did missing fingertip do the walking?

Irish hospital staff hunt for digit that vanished before operation
Updated: 9:49 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2004DUBLIN - Staff members at two Irish hospitals are hunting for a severed fingertip that vanished hours before it was due to be sewn on to a man’s finger, newspapers reported on Wednesday.

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The man lost the top of his right middle finger when it became trapped in a door. He was rushed to his local hospital and later transferred him to a bigger hospital in Galway, western Ireland.

The fingertip accompanied him in an ice bag.

“That bag was on the trolley beside me but I don’t know what happened to it after that,” the Irish Times quoted the man, who has not been named, as saying. “All I know is that when I arrived in Galway it was nowhere to be found.”

Surgeons did their best to mend the finger without the missing tip.

The local health board has launched an investigation.

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